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Claim Submission Delay Benchmark

Paul Vanchiere and I have spoken often about looking into "claim submission delays" when consulting with practices about their billing challenges.   Ultimately, we are interested in narrowing that gap as much as possible for obvious reasons - slow cl...
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2020 CPT Changes For Pediatrics

One of the benefits of working at PCC is that I am surrounded by nice and smart people (which, oddly, I never hear anyone else mentioning...weird).  As a practical benefit, it means that if I don't know something, I usually just need to ask a questio...
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EntreMD and the Inspirational Dr. Una

If you do not know Dr. Nneka Unachukwu - Dr. Una, for short - take the time to listen and learn from one of the most inspirational pediatricians I have met in my career.  She is a pediatrician, a CEO, a mother, and an entrepreneur who helps other phy...
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Free and Legal 2020 RVU-RBRVS Calculator

Welcome to the free 2020 RBRVS Calculator. As you may know, the AMA won’t let anyone provide a free RVU calculator that includes CPT codes due to their CPT copyrights. In an abundance of caution and, because in our unhappy experience, the AMA interpr...
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2020 RBRVS GPCI Analysis

Every year, I do an analysis of the RBRVS GPCI values - I think this is the most overlooked aspect of the RVU changes from year to year. 
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Major Imms Tools Update

Note: please move to using v2.1 of the Imms Admin Analysis Tool, which you can find here. After working with a number of customers, I've updated two immunization tools from the blog that I've found very handy.  I'd like to thank those who spent some ...
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Podcasts/Chip Hart

Available on iTunes
I had a great time speaking to Drs. Bravo and Rogu on their growing podcast, The Pediatric Lounge, to discuss the state of independent pediatricians and the use of data in a pediatric practice.  They are cranking out episodes (which is a good thing) and anyone who supports independent pediatricians should tune in to their effort.  What they are doing takes a tremendous amount of work and their guest list is amazing (well, besides me). They turned our conversation into back-to-back episodes (32 and 33), "Independent Pediatric Practice 2022" and "Data Data Data and Managing a Pediatric Office." If you prefer video, you catch up on their YouTube channel.
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